The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issues directives through its Health Alert Network (HAN), providing crucial guidance to the U.S public health departments and clinicians. One such directive is a Health Advisory pertaining to the recent outburst of Ebola disease in Uganda. This has been traced back to the Sudan Orthoebolavirus Sudanense virus.…
As viral infections like Ebola and Marburg pose severe threats globally, a novel innovation offers promise to boost early detection and containment. A team of researchers has developed a ground-breaking laboratory toolkit designed to assist frontline healthcare institutions in performing basic laboratory examinations critical to the management of patients with suspected viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs),…